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''Beautiful Vision'' is the thirteenth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in February 1982. It continued Morrison's departure from R&B at the time, instead favoring Celtic folk and American jazz in its music. As with many of Morrison's recordings, spirituality is a major theme and some of the songs are based on the teachings of Alice Bailey. Other songs show Morrison's Celtic heritage and reminiscence of his Belfast background. ''Beautiful Vision'' received critical acclaim but garnered only modest chart success, peaking at number 31 on the UK album charts and number 44 on the US ''Billboard'' 200. ==Recording== The first recording session started in May 1981 at The Record Plant studios, Sausalito, California, near the Golden Gate, San Francisco. Although only "Scandinavia" was released on ''Beautiful Vision'' from this session, "Cleaning Windows" and "Celtic Ray" were re-recorded for ''Beautiful Vision'' later on. All the other songs or instrumentals from the session were included on one of Morrison's later albums: the instrumentals "All Saints Day" and "Daring Night" appeared with lyrics on the albums ''Hymns to the Silence'' and ''Avalon Sunset'', and "Down the Road I Go" was renamed "Down the Road" and used as the title track on ''Down the Road''. On 27 July Morrison entered the recording studio to record "Cleaning Windows" and "Aryan Mist".〔 Morrison brought in different musicians for this session, including his former drummer Gary Mallaber and guitarist Mark Knopfler. Morrison concluded recording in the summer, when he recorded the rest of the songs for the album. Four songs were not used from this session, including the future singles "Real Real Gone" and "Tore Down a la Rimbaud".〔 Neither Knopfler nor Herbie Armstrong were able to produce the guitar tone Morrison wanted, so engineer Jim Stern suggested Chris Michie: "I got the call when I was doing a session in San Francisco. Van's producer Jim Stern said 'Can you get to the Plant (Sausalito ) in twenty minutes?' I said 'Yeah.' I walked into the studio with my gear as the band and Van were doing ... basic tracks. I was set up and playing before the end of the song 'She Gives Me Religion'". Michie later added lead guitar overdubs to "Cleaning Windows" and "Aryan Mist". Knopfler's contributions still featured on the final release, but are not as audible as Michie's.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beautiful Vision」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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